STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ News

Character Modernization

• Adjustments and smoother textures have been added to improve the neckline seams on Human, Cyborg, Miraluka, Mirialan, Togruta, Zabrak, and Chiss throughout the game, especially for player characters.

General

• [Speeder Piloting VI] has been renamed to Enhanced Speed Boosters. The speed boost can now be found in the Ability Window under Legacy instead of a temporary ability bar. 
  
  
  • Updated the description of the ability to clarify how it functions. 
  
  
• All armor moving parts and weapon tunings now display properly in cinematics when the player's character enters a combat stance with them equipped.
  
• Combat armor moving parts now stop animation when the player starts a conversation in a combat stance.

Missions

• [Mount Up!] The Republic mission now mentions the correct mount in its description. 
  
• [Ziost: Dead Pulse] The directional arrows are now correctly placed and properly route the player as intended. 

Uprisings

• [Divided We Fall] Lieutenant Raena’s head texture has been restored.

Basilisk Prototype Venture

• Basilisk training missions now properly complete if B3-S1 is summoned and the player is mounted when completing or turning in the mission.

Galactic Seasons

• Added description to the Research and Destruction mission

Items

• The saddles on the Kaas Typhloractyl, Arcane Kaas Typhloractyl, Coruscanti Typhloractyl, and Advanced Coruscanti Typhloractyl mounts no longer stretch or clip into the player’s legs. 
  
• The Peerless Explorer Enviro-Suit helmet is no longer visible on Nautolan and Togruta characters in Character Select.  
  
• The Peerless Explorer Enviro-Suit now shows a jetpack animation when the Rocket Boost ability is used. 
  
• The Trellis Field decoration no longer has a flickering texture on the field. 
  
• The Strap Attachment Tuning is now properly attached to the following weapons:  
  
  
  • Experimental Blaster Pistol
    
  • Control Blaster Pistol
    
  • Experimental Blaster Rifle
    
  • Side Effect Blaster Rifle
  
  
• The effects from Bubble Bomb (Orange) and Bubble Bomb (Blue) are now categorized as Buffs. 
  
• Bubble Bomb (Orange) now has its own icon.
  
• Fixed an environmental lighting issue on the Dark Honor Guard weapon set that caused them to appear chrome. 

Dynamic Encounters

• [Hoth: Shield Up! Achievement] The Achievement now properly tracks shots that are blocked with the portable shield. 
  
• [Hailstorm Brotherhood] The Hailstorm Champions no longer spawn when their encounters are inactive. 

Operations/Operation Bosses

• [Relentless Replication] Identical augment schematics will no longer drop for the same player in a single run. 
  
• Mirror class buffs no longer override personal class buffs in Operation groups.
  

We will be taking servers down on April 1st to deploy Game Update 7.6.1c.

• Time: 7am CT / 12pm UTC
  
• Estimated downtime: 3 hours
  

A full list of patch notes will be here available on Monday, March 31st.

Character Modernization updates and Master Mode for Relentless Replication will be released on the Public Test Server (PTS) beginning today! Below are details and a rough timeline when to expect specific content to be available on the PTS.

Character Modernization

Updates to our Character Modernization initiative are now available on the PTS! The two main focuses for this iteration are the smoothing textures on character faces and improving the neckline seam textures.

More details can be found on the PTS sub-forums here.

Relentless Replication Master Mode

(The Propagator Core XR-53 boss)

The hardest difficulty for the Propagator Core XR-53 Operation Boss is intended to be available on the PTS in early April. As with previous testing, we will be using the PTS Forums to communicate questions and changes as player feedback rolls in.

We will communicate the exact day and time when this content will roll out on the test server on our social channels and Dev Tracker.

The timelines stated above are subject to change.


*PTS is only available in English
*PTS is only available to Subscribers

We will be bringing down servers tomorrow, March 25 at 7am CT / 12pm UTC to deploy a fix for the polymorph issue keeping players from progressing through cinematic scenes in the Knight of the Eternal Throne Chapters.

Estimated downtime: Less than one hour

Uprisings

• Group Finder will now feature Story Mode instead of Veteran Mode.
  
• Reduced enemy health and enemy damage dealt in Story and Veteran Mode.
  
• Enhanced enemies will appear more often when using the Experimental Combat Enhancer.

Items

• The Coruscanti and Kaas Traveler’s Hoods no longer hide facial hair.

Missions

• Fixed an issue that blocked some players from starting chapter cinematics in Knight of the Eternal Throne and Knights of the Fallen Empire.